The Old Burying Ground, the oldest surviving graveyard in Cambridge, is a fixture of Harvard Square. Over the past two decades, efforts to maintain the cemetery have drawn together a wide swath of ...

Fourth of July fireworks shows in Massachusetts start early this week, but they do not end on Independence Day.

PORTSMOUTH — City staff are preparing to conduct maintenance work on Portsmouth’s iconic African Burying Ground Memorial Park. Suzanne Woodland, the deputy city manager/regulatory counsel, is ...

For centuries, the University of Cambridge has brought some of the most intelligent people in the world to the city, and some of them have even been buried here. One cemetery in Cambridge, dubbed ...

The burial ground was in the news again on Saturday when around 15 volunteers from the Domlur Layout Residents Welfare Association and the Cambridge Layout Residents Welfare Association, along ...

The memorial park is sacred ground in Portsmouth. Dedicated in May 2015, it memorializes more 200 people of African descent who were buried in the area of Chestnut Street during the 1700s.

A Texas woman discovered an ancestor named Kitty Cary who died while enslaved. Tracking her to Richmond revealed what could be the largest African burial ground in the country.

BXP, meanwhile, will pay for the extra cost associated with burying the substation underground, though Eversource declined to disclose the amount that BXP would be contributing.

Brides are burying raw sausages in the ground before saying ‘I do’ — here’s the bizarre reason why By . Asia Grace. Published July 26, 2024, 10:44 a.m. ET.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A city-owned portion of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground is now officially designated as a cemetery following a move by Richmond City Council on Tuesday. During its ...

Gschwind also thought that she wanted to commemorate the historical marker event rather than the burial ground. She wrote back to clarify that she was talking about the billboard on 1305 N.

Springfield Burying Ground: Restoration gives improved final home for early city residents. $1.1 million restoration gives new life to ‘a place that has been underappreciated for 220 years ...